Dubai: Gay Travel Advice (om a lol) - The Globetrotter Guys

Contents:

• PERIL AND PRIVILEGE: GAY EXPAT NIGHTLIFE DUBAI
• DUBAI NIGHTLIFE FOR GAY MALE TOURISTS - DUBAI FOM
• DUBAI GAY WHATSAPP GROUP LK
• GAY DUBAI - DUBAI FOM
• WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FOUR GAY GUYS FROM TEL AVIV TOOK A VATN TO DUBAI
• TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021
• DUBAI: GAY TRAVEL ADVICE (OM A LOL)
• DUBAI GAY MAP

PERIL AND PRIVILEGE: GAY EXPAT NIGHTLIFE DUBAI

Homosexualy is not jt a taboo subject Dubai – s strictly forbidn and punishable by law. Many LGBT dividuals may chose to vis Dubai or the UAE but is extremely important to be rmed of the nsequenc of beg openly gay this regn. Although one should never have to hi who they are, ’s the only way to travel safely the UAE if you are gay.

Wh harsh and discrimatory laws nmng homosexualy and promotg homophobia the name of relign, one mt nsir the risks que refully. There is a vibrant unrground gay scene Dubai even though beg gay is a punishable offence.

If you know the right people and the right plac, one n enjoy the gay scene to a certa extent. There are no official gay clubs, but lotns of unofficial gay clubs circulate on the Inter and men gather wh ltle fear of the nsequenc.

DUBAI NIGHTLIFE FOR GAY MALE TOURISTS - DUBAI FOM

Some claim that the police will simply disperse crowds if a gay club is bted, but other people are fearful that the suatn might be worse. When the police fd out about gay iendly clubs they get shut down fast, people get ported and punishments are likely imposed. There are stori of fundamentalists chattg onle and meetg up wh gay men and subsequently threateng to report them to the police.

There have been a few wispread reports regardg the nmnatn of homosexual behavr Dubai and the UAE. Reports claim that punishment for homosexualy n range om 10 years prison, f, portatn and even the ath penalty. The cint arose out of allegatns that the Sheikh ma homosexual advanc to Orsi.

DUBAI GAY WHATSAPP GROUP LK

Bee the mentaly the UAE is that homosexual men need to be terred om homosexual activy, hormone treatments were required. The treatments were jtified based on the social impact of homosexualy and risk for society. Officials Dubai arrted 26 men attendg a gay weddg raid by police.

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Eleven of the men nfsed to practicg homosexualy and were sentenced to 5 years imprisonment for homosexualy, and an addnal year for obsceny.

Hormone therapy is nsired a eful treatment to al wh the ‘homosexual problem’ Dubai. The topic has been regularly ignored nsirg the taboo nature of homosexualy Mlim untri.

Kafkaque claims he was disuraged by the police om prsg charg and even faced the possibily of beg charged wh crimal homosexual activy himself. This se highlighted the taboo nature of homosexualy and HIV/AIDS.

WHAT HAPPENED WHEN FOUR GAY GUYS FROM TEL AVIV TOOK A VATN TO DUBAI

The law provis that foreigners wh HIV or foreigners who have mted homosexual actns are to be ported, or so seems. What is apparent though, is that there have been var s over the last 5 or so years that monstrate harsher treatment for foreigners and crimalizatn of homosexualy. Homosexualy has a grave impact on a society where relig books nmn homosexual behavr for beg immoral and agast human nature.

Homosexualy is not a disease or mental problem that needs to be fixed. Seventeen homosexual men were also arrted 2008 for cross-drsg and beg gay. While is clearly a vlatn of human rights to crimalize homosexualy and promote discrimatn, there is a fe le between the right to be yourself and the importance of rpectg other people’s cultur.

TRAVEL SAFETY REPORT: 20 WORST PLAC FOR GAY TRAVELERS IN 2021

While is imperative that homosexualy be accepted the UAE, is also important for foreigners to be rpectful of the culture which they impose themselv – even if they disagree wh the ctoms. While seems evint that rape occurred, AA is beg charged wh nsensual homosexual sex. The charg arose January and another man, MN was also charged wh prostutn, nsensual homosexual sex, pornographic material, cross-drsg and sultg relign.

DUBAI: GAY TRAVEL ADVICE (OM A LOL)

There were only few reports of prosecutns and punishments but many people on the Inter censor their nversatns and inty gay chat rooms. Reports even suggt that any se wh the word gay or sex is blocked. That is the qutn that LSE’s Dr Centner and his -thor Harvard’s Manoel Pereira Neto explore their groundbreakg rearch to Dubai’s expatriate gay men’s nightlife.

“As two queer rearchers, we were able to enter the worlds of relatively privileged Wtern gay expatriat.

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Not a sgle venue’s webpage the word ‘gay’ or related phemisms, nor do they ht at targetg a gay crowd.

They also nducted terviews, relyg on personal ntacts, to fd 26 gay men, aged 24-48 and reprentg 15 natnali. Their forthg paper explas: “Much of the Dubayyan gay nightlife tak place venu wh the cy’s p ternatnal hotels, which are technilly open to all who n afford them. The rearchers wonred, at first, how so many men knew that the are events attend by many other gay men: “The were ed ‘parti’ – on a specific night of the week for different s – equented by gays, not bars intified as gay.

Gay datg apps are also shunned for fear of entrapment by ’s this nstant sense of your hair standg on end and havg to be ut about who's listeng, who's at the door, who's ved, or what might be said and passed along, that uld get most such venu, the rearchers note that the mic played is rarely the kd of remixed, beat-heavy tracks or classilly “gay” songs that domate self-proclaimed LGBTQ bars across many global ci. Only those wh the most cumulative privilege among a generally imperilled populatn of heterogeneo Dubai-based homosexuals would attempt to ploy this repertoire openly. As you might image, is private hom where Wtern gay men experience the most eedom to build a “more robt sense of belongg, tablishg supportive works that rerce their intifitn as both gay and Wtern, dividually and as a group.

Most terviewe talked about needg to fd their “gay fay” Dubai as soon as they arrived, so they might make a “home away om home. Sce most pani arrange randomly assigned hog shared flats, is up to gay men to ask heterosexual flatmat to swch wh a gay ntact, so two or more gay men n habate and anise private and very selective social seekg some sense of home away om home... The men are, advertently, unwillgly, or some s, que explicly, keepg out other typ of gay or queer people who are not ‘siar’ to them.

Reflectg on the signifince of the rearch, Dr Centner says: “In addn to brgg some attentn to this kd of existence, is also important to note how this is very much an expatriate, relatively privileged, experience of gay life Dubai. So, part of what we try to do is to pot out how, seekg some sense of home away om home, that the men are, advertently, unwillgly, or some s, que explicly, keepg out other typ of gay or queer people who are not ‘siar’ to them. “So even if homosexualy is illegal, Dubai don't want to be seen as specifilly anti-gay.

“However, we felt that, ntrast to plac where even if homosexualy is not illegal, but there's plenty of vlent homophobia, everythg felt more on edge Dubai.